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Referred to by many “Medium Parallel” or "Intermediate Parallel" this is a good goal for anyone wishing to cruise a variety of slopes from easy green runs to steeper blue runs... and even groomed black runs (if such a thing exists;).
Demonstration Objectives:
- Keep skis parallel through entire turn.
- Maintain a round turn shape through early grip.
- Maintain consistent speed (adjusting to the slopes pitch).
- Maintain rhythm and linking of turns from one arc to the next.
- Maintain a medium size corridor.
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Sweet demo! Wish I’d found this one back in Feb/March.
Couple of questions:
1. What’s the pitch like? It looks relatively mild but then everything looks mild on camera.
2. This is posted on Vimeo? Do you have a vimeo channel with other vids? (Looked under ‘Section 8’ and ‘Science Friction’ and ‘Skier Lab’ but found nothing.
Thanks Geepers!
This demo was filmed at Valle Nevado down in Chile last year on a few moderate “blue” pitches of varying gradients. Nothing terribly steep but as you mentioned everything looks lower angle on video. To achieve the same objective on steeper groomed terrain I would just add a little more aggressive steering angle to manage speed.
We do have a Vimeo account but it’s not public… it just happens to be where we host videos for this site.
Can you post a similar video, with a list of skiing objectives, for “advanced parallel”? Perhaps also for (advanced) short-radius turns?
Hoping to add many more demos for all these maneuvers soon Marcus… just trying to finish that pesky P2P3 video first.